. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 633. THE BLACK TERN. HvDROCHELfDON NIGRA (Linnaeus). The Black Tern was a regular spring-visitor to England before drainage had done away with most of the fens and morasses to which it used to resort for breeding-purposes ; but even in Norfolk the last eggs on record were taken as long ago as 1858, though early in this century the nests of the " Blue Darr," as the bird was called, might have been found by hundreds on the alder-swamps. In Lincolnshire a pair or two of the " Car-Swallow,'' may occasionally be seen in summer;
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 633. THE BLACK TERN. HvDROCHELfDON NIGRA (Linnaeus). The Black Tern was a regular spring-visitor to England before drainage had done away with most of the fens and morasses to which it used to resort for breeding-purposes ; but even in Norfolk the last eggs on record were taken as long ago as 1858, though early in this century the nests of the " Blue Darr," as the bird was called, might have been found by hundreds on the alder-swamps. In Lincolnshire a pair or two of the " Car-Swallow,'' may occasionally be seen in summer; but otherwise this species chiefly frequents our eastern and southern coasts, rivers, and inland waters in April and early May, rarely reaching to the north of the Aire and the Humber ; while in August the young begin to make their appearance, and a few birds remain in the south-west as late as November. In the west of England it is rare, even on the marshes of the Solway, where, how- ever, its eggs are said to have been taken in 1855 ; and though it has been met with on the Firth of Forth and other parts of the lowlands of Scotland, as well as on Loch Lomond, it is as yet unknown in the Hebrides or the Orkneys. The irregular occurrences recorded from Ireland are chiefly those of immature birds in autumn. As a straggler the Black Tern was obtained in the Faeroes in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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